global administration, giving legitimacy to global governance. In this way, global administrative law evolves into a small … constitutionalism and how the concept of legitimacy is recast in relation to global governance. I first point out that originally …, however, global administrative law faces the challenges of legality and legitimacy. Turning away from state consent, global …

a chain of legitimacy does not appear to be sufficient to justify transnational democracy. Starting from this diagnosis …, the paper introduces an alternative conception of transnational legitimacy. In this conception, the layer of legitimacy … provided by the chain of legitimation is complemented by a layer of legitimacy that is provided by political practices at the …